Just wrote a quick lunchtime comment reply to my friend Jack Ryan, and realized it belongs on the front page since it involves the campaign theme for Steve Stockman – and this is your one-stop repository for all things related to Steve Stockman’s potential campaign themes.

Summary: Steve Stockman has sat around doing nothing for 20 years. Now he wants the highest elected office in Loudoun County. Soon, he will even begin to work for it.

Jack, Steve Stockman has got to be the laziest candidate for any office and here he thinks he deserves to be Chairman? Not only has he done NOTHING in over 20 years to make a positive change in the county – no addresses to the Board, no letters to the editor, no grassroots or civic activity, nothing – but he has barely even campaigned. He has given NOT A SINGLE campaign “speech”. At the LCRC all it amounted to was making an announcement at the podium. The guy could not even be bothered to put together some coherent thoughts. He has been at public events for – what a little less than 3 months – since he announced, and lets his daughter do 95% of the talking (his daughter is wonderful, by the way, many have said she is the one who should be running for office). As a candidate, Steve is a joke.

I guess he is saving his campaign speeches until he gets the nomination, just to make sure it is worth the trouble to put one together.

If ever there was someone who thought they were going to cruise into office because of past accomplishments it is this clown. But even according to the lame GOP mantra, “It’s my turn” this guy fails because it is not even “his turn.”

Steve Stockman is a nobody who has done nothing to show he would even take the job seriously, but because some people put a bug in his ear that they would carry him into the Board room and deposit him in the Chairman’s seat he has decided to dip his toe in the water on the outside chance it might be worth his time.

I have personally done 1000% more than Steve Stockman during the past decade to try and help this county and I was only active for 18 months. Here’s some free advice, Jack: Tell Steve Stockman to spend 15 minutes at his desk and put together a speech for public delivery. Nothing fancy, just some thoughts that follow one another, preferably on a topic that shows he wants to make things better for the residents of Loudoun County. One friggin’ speech, ok?

Failing that, how about a letter to the editor? Oh, I forgot, I guess it is too late for either of those things, since Steve has been sitting on his ass for the past 20 years and since he announced for this office he has done exactly bupkiss for the past 10 weeks, but now in the 5 days before the filing deadline suddenly he has a bunch anonymous trolls shooting their mouths off on his behalf.

Here’s the next campaign theme I need a graphic for if anyone can help:

“I’m Steve Stockman, and although I am too lazy to give a speech, I do have a group of anonymous trolls on the Internet speaking very highly of me all of a sudden.”

UPDATE: We have just been informed by “Pam” – the anonymous troll who suddenly appeared out of nowhere to grace us with her unusual patterns of thought in her feverish attempts to help Steve Stockman – that Steve Stockman supposedly finally did give a speech last night, July 7 – which was only heard by anonymous trolls and hobgoblins, but by all accounts was a really terrific speech.

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Guess you missed the recent letter to the editor of the LTM? and the speech last night? And all the specifics that Stockman spoke about…

just because you don’t come to events and miss stuff does not mean “nothing” happened! Keep those fingers in your ears and close your eyes real tight…or listen and open them up and get some reality!

I would like to have you point out ONE speech that York has made? Stockman answered a ton of questions with specifics last night at the debate, turned into candidate Q&A.

When has York ever answered any specific questions about anything? Is he happy with his performance over the last 20 years? What would he do differently? What specifics does he propose to cut our spending, control our government and all the “enhancements” that are really just new programs disguised each year in the budget?

Just generalities! That is all Scott York has… He is a “conservative”– really? He hopes to win on the theme that Stockman has not been a politician for more than 20 years, this is pitifully funny… he can’t talk about his record?

Written by Barbara Munsey about 5 years ago.

Don’t get the LTM, and they are pretty bad about updating their website under opinion.

So, who wrote the letter?

Yes, I’d bet most of the county missed last night.

Too much anonymous churning confusion.

York has a record.

And most recently, with the CBPO, it looks pretty decent.

Written by Barbara Munsey about 5 years ago.

woops! found it–first update in quite a while.

He promises to work for the residents of Raspberry Falls, and that’s good.

Now, how about Broad Run Farms, which was becoming a superfund site…while he was on the BoS?

How about Sterling, and Loudoun Valley Estates, and Kirkpatrick Farms, and Ashburn Village, and South Riding, and Broadlands, and Potomac Station, and Lucketts, and Willisville, and Purcellville, and Neersville, and Cedar Hunt, and Ridings at Blue Springs, and Victoria Station, and Ashburn Farm, and Brambleton, and Hillsboro, and Stone Ridge, and….

Written by Pam about 5 years ago.

Barbara, clean drinking water is a core government service, and should be a priority over “enhancements” expanding existing programs, energy studies, climate change, etc… If he had been on the Board, he would have been focusing on these core issues, and how to pay for them. As you know, Raspberry Falls would like to be put in a special tax district to pay for the extension of water to their community. I heard after the Raspberry Falls meet and greet that Scott York thought they all had individual wells, and did not realize they had a community well, and came off sounding like he has not paid any attention to them for years, even though they have been to public input after public input and written him, met with him, etc… He has written letters that have gone out under his name, but apparently did not have a clue as to what he had even written or said? They finally got him to understand they do not want him to fix their individual wells, but their community wells, and then he did have staff prepare a letter saying he favored the extension of public water from Leesburg to their community.

Still, what good is it that he is in office, if he just has staff write letters he does not understand?

That’s great, Pam. I bet it was one heck of a speech, that one single speech that no actual person heard.

One thing you can say about Steve Stockman: he is all about the timing.

Written by Pam about 5 years ago.

Joe, it is on tape, and I think they are going to try to put it on the web since you missed it. It was good. And Scott York is either lazy or scared for just not showing up. How many speeches has York made? ZERO. What questions has York answered? NONE. Lazy? unprepared? can’t cite facts and figures? or scared to even try to defend his record or say what he would do differently in the next 4 years?

Written by Scott about 5 years ago.

I did not attend last night because I wasn’t sure if it was on… or off.. or on..

Written by Barbara Munsey about 5 years ago.

“Pam”, I would hope that Stockman is running for more votes than Raspberry Falls.

I know some nice people from there, and they have been screwed, but the chair at large is responsible for the entire county.

Who wrote the letter?

And what about the Hidden Lane landfill in the way back yonder when he was active and participated?

Written by Pam about 5 years ago.

Joe, there were between 75 and 100 people there, only one person in the audience was a candidate. It was a missed opportunity for those who did not come, many were signing delegate forms at the end…

Written by Barbara Munsey about 5 years ago.

Joe, as you start new threads, you may wish to monitor old ones to keep things tidy.

You know how hard it is to chase spectres from thread to thread if you’re actually trying to answer them.

Cut and paste plus one new talking point works less well if you can keep it in one spot.

Where, oh where is Gozer the Gozerian?

Written by Pam about 5 years ago.

Barbara, he wrote the letter as far as I know. He spoke to the folks from Raspberry and understood the issues quickly with his legal background and experience with Loudoun Water and on the BoS. He went to the meet and greet at Raspberry but Scott York did not attend, only sent his surrogates…

I am sure he is familiar with the Superfund site in Broad Run, since he lived there until just recently, and represented that area when he was on the BoS. I am sure he will work hard to finally fix it, and not do what our environmentalist McGimsey did (nothing.)

Written by Pam about 5 years ago.

UM, Scott, at about 5 pm a lot of people were confused, and Howie was happy to answer his cell phone…. which I am sure you have…

Written by Barbara Munsey about 5 years ago.

So he lived there, and represented it when he was on the BoS?

And that recommends him to the residents of Raspberry Falls how exactly?

Barbara, I am aware of the organizational issues here, my assistant must be slacking on the job. Hard to find good help nowadays.

Written by Pam about 5 years ago.

Barbara, he is aware of the Superfund site issues– it was not a superfund when he represented the area, but he was responsible for bringing public sewer to Broad Run, and he understands the complexities with setting up special tax districts, and organizing public entities to work efficiently to accomplish a task, instead of taking years and getting nothing done,,, which is what has happened with Ms. McGimsey representing that area… it is analogous to the Raspberry Falls situation, where they need a public water line due to contaminated public/community wells there.

Written by Barbara Munsey about 5 years ago.

I understand that it wasn’t publicly referred to as a superfund site yet, it was just becoming one.

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Not criticizing you Joe. At all. In fact, I’m enjoying the graphics and slogans.

Written by Justin Time about 5 years ago.

Pam: All blogs, all Stockman. all the time. Wow.

Written by JRyan about 5 years ago.

Joe – most incumbant politicians list thier acheivements in a mailer….I guess this is why York used a picture of his opponent instead of telling Loudouners about his record of acheivement: Lets see: abysmal tax rate 1.29 (highest in VA), zero economic development, office space vacancy rate up, store fronts shuttered, unemployment rate up, CBPO endorsed candidates, traffic jams, etc…yes, you may have a point on Steve Stockman’s campaign not gettign out there enough, but I also see a lack of accomplishments from the current leader who has been in charge for 12 years. Being lazy doesn’t seem to cost me that much, having a ton of government expereince is costing me thousands. I wish both candidates much success in their efforts to become Chairman of Loudoun County. Both will serve well whoever is elected. A riddle now, who is more lazy – a georgetown law grad. or a Robinson HS diploma holder. A small business owner or a bureaucrat. One who funds the system or one who is paid by the system?

Written by Eric the 1/2 troll about 5 years ago.

‘“Pam” – the anonymous troll who suddenly appeared out of nowhere to grace us with her unusual patterns of thought in her feverish attempts to help Steve Stockman”

Giving us trolls a bad name!!

Written by Eric the 1/2 troll about 5 years ago.

Raspberry Falls…hmmm….now who else that we know likes to go on and on about Raspberry Falls?…..

Written by Jack Black about 5 years ago.

Steve Stockman has put together an awesome campaign. He had a full contingent of supporters with him at the Lovettsville Parade AND the Leesburg 4th Parade. Where was Scott York? I guess the wind blew him away because he wasn’t there. York blows whichever way the wind blows and Loudoun County is tired of the lack of leadership. We don’t need a weathervane running the county…we need a leader. Stockman is the right man for the job. He is experienced in business, has a law degree AND experience on the Board. What does York have? No law degree (or any degree for that matter), never was successful in any business, and his experience on the board was to blow whichever way the wind blows. NO THANKS! Laziness? Scott York is the lazy one. He has never been a leader and even endorsed those Democrats the last go around.

Written by Barbara Munsey about 5 years ago.

You mean kind of like Mr. Stockman seems to have voted in the most recent democratic presidential primary?

What’s up with that?

Please don’t say it was to benefit the Republican candidate–it kind of blows off “Pam”‘s integrity talking point.

Written by Pam about 5 years ago.

Many well known conservative activists voted in democratic primaries in 2008, google Operation Chaos.

Jack, that’s not just crazy, that’s PAM-crazy: What in the world does a law degree have to do with fitness for any office anywhere?

Hey, that gives me an idea for a new Steve Stockman campaign theme …

Written by Barbara Munsey about 5 years ago.

Jacob, didn’t operation chaos start later than we held our primary?

The problem I’m having with it is that the same person (“Pam”) has been beating the integrity AND the pledge drum, and people with INTEGRITY don’t vote in somebody else’s contest “to screw with the results”.

Now, when York rejoined the committee, did he or did he not foreswear any previous support of Democrats, and pledge to support Republicans?

Where was “Pam” then?

Why wasn’t she all over the airwaves demanding that he be kept out, to keep the party pure?

A pledge only means something when she arbits it apparently, and it is apparently okay to vote as a Dem, as long as it’s only to mess with them.

Barbara, you are the one who will not join the LCRC because you will not sign the pledge, but you will sign the pledge to vote in the convention? hmmm a little hypocritical?

The pledge says you will support R candidates. Voting in a primary is not supporting a D candidate if you vote for the R in the election. I believe that even George Allen voted in dem primaries….or maybe it was Susan?

That is a whole lot different from endorsing Democrats, giving them money, slamming the R candidates with expensive misleading mailers, and running with them as a slate… like York did. The video John posted below is amazing, “Help me Save Loudoun, first help me elect Andrea McGimsey…” PEC pawn, yes.

York will be just fine. When Stockman has to send out bold-faced lies in order to sell himself, everyone should listen up and avoid the guy like the plague.
Scott York side-stepped DPM BEFORE the convention.
Scott York is more republican than some of the idiots on the LCRC right now.
Scott York is not responsible for the tax rate….he’s been out-voted on it by more liberal fools.
Get your “talking points” right, people….or I’ll straighten them out for you.

Uh, “Pam”? I will not REjoin the LCRC because of exactly the kind of crap you are practicing here. There aren’t enough hours in any month.

newsflash: anonymous blogging in the volume you’re practicing is not anonymity. Do you think that because you’ve picked a new name for this venue (and apparently several over at LTM?)to play the same games, that you’re invisible? It’s the reasoning level of the little kid that covers their face in peekaboo, but not nearly as cute or attractive.

Integrity must be practiced, as must courage.

You display neither in your endeavors here, and consequently have no business holding up a pledge like a weapon.

Barbara, you said earlier you would not rejoin because you would not sign the pledge,,, then you turn around and say you WILL sign the pledge and vote in the convention… hypocrite, yes. Then when I point it out, you blame me! Ha!

Yes, York voted for the Chesapeake Bay legislation over and over and over, choosing that instead of other stream measures that would have been easier and more targeted to implement, given our stream report that showed our streams should be the envy of the United States. (The report no one read, and staff misrepresented.) How many staff hours were put into this monster? How many years? How many different stakeholder processes/ meetings/ staff reports– they cannot even fit all the links to everything that happened on one webpage…

Hundreds of thousands of dollars, on and on and on– when someone with an ounce of common sense could have looked at this early on and said it made no sense… the simple truth is Scott York, with his high school degree from Fairfax County schools (granted better than ours!) depends exclusively on staff to tell him what to do. The residents of Raspberry Falls were shocked at how little he could discuss their issue and how uninformed he was on basics, and how he did not even understand what he had written in previous letters, confused thinking they all had their own wells? when it is their community well that has failed?

He has a machine, yes. He knows staff, yes. He had the basic common sense to see that if he was going to run again, he had to vote against Chesapeake Bay (and not quit like Buckley, Kurtz, Miller) — just like McGimsey voted against it, for political survival.

If we all fall lockstep, and are called names for pointing out BS, it is bad for the evolution of our party. Barbara, of course you don’t want to be part of a group, you can’t stand to be wrong, or even to consider that you “might” be wrong.

Steve Stockman, law degree from Georgetown University; Scott York HS degree from Robinson; Steve Stockman former BoS member and appointee to Loudoun Water, then made it on his own dime as a private business owner in Loudoun with two offices… Scott York, career politician, no real world experience in having the government take his money, only experience in having the government GIVE him money, depends on staff to tell him what to do and staff has an agenda often keep him in the dark….

Just look at his record, and why would anyone want to vote for him? York voted for ICLEI, Agenda 21, etc– now he is going to campaign with the rest of the slate to get out of these programs? We endorse someone who has done EVERYTHING we oppose and want to change? just makes little sense…

Pam, I think you need to brush up on the CBPO stuff. That’s not exactly how it happened. Look back at some of the newspaper articles. It was well documented.

Written by Barbara Munsey about 5 years ago.

Pam, please prove to me where I said that. (and then prove where York voted for CBPO–in its total form–”over and over and over and over….”)

Maybe you only think I said that because you are so busy talking, you don’t listen?

And when one is on a mission from God, maybe you don’t need to listen?

No, YOU’RE not a hypocrite: you use your real name. And at the next big event we can all be clubwomen together! Such fun.

Written by Barbara Munsey about 5 years ago.

Understood, Jack. Especially lately around here!

Written by HFTB about 5 years ago.

“Scott York is not responsible for the tax rate….he’s been out-voted on it by more liberal fools…”

BPM, you mean the liberal fools he endorsed back in 2007? Come to think of it, didn’t you also support those candidates? If you recall, he did join them in voting for the $1.30 tax rate last year. He also voted to raise the rate from 89 cents to 96 cents in 2007, while real fiscal conservatives Staton, Delgaudio, Waters and Clem voted against the increase and fought to keep the rate at 89 cents. He had the chance to join them and prove he’s a fiscal conservative.

Written by Pam about 5 years ago.

Thank you HFTB. The truth, Scott York voted for $1.30. And when the true conservatives voted to keep the tax rate at 89 cents, he voted to raise the tax rate… York voted for the HIGHEST tax rate in the history of Loudoun, the highest tax rate in the entire Southeastern United States and has been responsible for making Loudoun County the least competitive county for business, impossible to bring business here with our taxes so much higher than any other jurisdiction and also given our crazy radicals penchant for red tape and tying up any kind of plan to improve anything, taking roads off the comp plan, fighting everything, roadblocks by staff right and left, pulling the rug out from under people we should be thanking our blessings for… wasting millions of dollars on meaningless regulations and bureaucracy, which must justify their jobs by finding SOMETHING wrong with EVERYTHING… and Scott York is completely deaf to regular citizens and only does anything if there are big bucks to spend on him or a job to offer him…. like HCA or ServiceStar or Toll….

Let me inform you of the reasons I supported those liberal fools. It was because the republican fools never saw a development request that didn’t tickle their fancies. And that , by adding all those homes and the children that come with them, our school funds (75% of our taxes) rose exponentially. Huge drain on the tax rate. How was this fiscally responsible , again??

What I did not count on was the stupidity of these greenies to try to enact draconian measures once they were in office, and to swing the pendelum the other way as hard as they could push. Both groups had their problems. And I distinctly remember that some of the same idiots pushing Stockman were rabidly going after Waters at the same time. With Jack Ryan. Go figure.

York was outmanuevered in the convention the year he stepped out of the Republican process. The man had the integrity to do it well before any pledge was ever signed. DPM and Jack Ryan did not. They waited, like Simpson, until the cards had all been dealt, and then wanted to change the game rules. So we have a double standard….something I’ll never stand for. And the head cheerleader appears to be the same one who pushed “Fireball” Firetti, demeaned York at every turn, and continues the obsession even today.